[PR] 30-day Public Review for SAML V2.0 Metadata Extensions for Login and Discovery User Interface Version 1.0

The OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC [1] members have recently approved a  
Committee Specification Draft and submitted this specification for 30-day  
public review:

SAML V2.0 Metadata Extensions for Login and Discovery User Interface  
Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 01

26 July 2011

Specification Overview:

This document defines a set of extensions to SAML metadata that provide  
information necessary for user agents to present effective user interfaces  
and, in the case of identity provider discovery, recommend appropriate  
choices to the user. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Friday, 14 October 2011 and ends 13 November  
2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files  
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/43924/sstc-saml-metadata-ui-v1.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Security  
Services (SAML) TC may be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A  
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=security

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of SAML V2.0 Metadata Extensions for Login and Discovery User  
Interface Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2]  
applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All  
members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create  
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent,  
copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS  
specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to  
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above  
specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for  
this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=security

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.2

RF on RAND Terms 

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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